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Christopher A. SmithCampus Life Editor

Veterans GI Billbenefts delayed

Students voice complaints, ideas at trustee orum

Many veterans attendingACC have ound it dicult to

pay or books, rent and tuitionthis semester. Distribution o GIBill benets by the Departmento Veteran Aairs (VA) has beendelayed and many ACC student

veterans, as well as studentveterans across the country, haveyet to receive the money they areentitled to.

ACC has been doing whatit can to help those veterans.uition payments or veteranswho are still waiting on theirbenets have been put in ashelter so that they will not bedropped or non-payment.

o try and alleviate theproblem, the VA began handingout emergency checks o up to

$3,000 this month to studentveterans who are still waitingor the GI Bill benets to beapproved. Veterans can applyor the check online and receivea check in the mail, or they candrive to the Waco or HoustonVA oce to pick up the check inperson.

Unortunately there are alot o guys or whom this is theirsole income. Tey planned oncoming back to school, and theybanked on receiving this money.Teir rent and all o that studoesnt stop just because they arenot getting money, said RandallLuce, an Army veteran and ACCstudent.

Luce is a work study in the

ACC oce o veteran aairs,and he has talked to and helpedmany o the veterans comingthrough the oce wonderingwhen their money would comein.

Te emergency checks havecome in just in time said Luce.I (the VA) hadnt come outwith (the emergency checks), Ireally think a lot o people wouldhave had to drop out.

We knew this was coming.We all knew this was going to bean issue, said Mark Harden, themanager or veterans aairs atACC. Harden has been workingcontinuously since the start othe all s emester getting veteransregistered with the school andall the appropriate paperworksent to the VA oce. He says theincrease in student veterans, thepopularity o the new Post 9/11GI Bill, and an overwhelmed VAhave led to the delay in benets.

Ive had a lot o calls romstudents distressed. What Ivetried to do is provide them whatI knew, said Harden.

Tis is the rst semester thenew Post 9/11 GI Bill has beenan option or veterans. Te newbenets package pays tuitiondirectly to the school and thengives veterans the money theyneed or books and a monthlyhousing allowance. o qualiyor the new bill, a veteran must

have served at least 90 days oactive duty beginning on or aerSep. 11, 2001. However manystudent veterans have yet to

receive their benets.ACC student and Navy

veteran Sean Saenger has beenwaiting or his Post 9/11 GI Billbenets to come in since thestart o the semester in August.Saenger served in the Navy rom2003 to 2007 and then worked at

various odd jobs beore enrollingat ACC.

I decided to go back toschool because it was theoriginal plan seven years ago,and because I was in between

jobs, and I needed the money(rom the GI Bill), said Saenger.

Tey were supposed haveour rst check at the end oAugust, which turned into

mid-September, which turnedinto end o September, whichhas now turned into Nov. 1,said Saenger o the delays.Obviously none o us budgetedor that.

o get by, Saenger has had toborrow money rom his parentsand his girlriend. On Oct. 14,he drove up to Waco and got oneo the emergency checks andwas able to start paying themback. Saenger, and many other

veterans in the same position,have been going weekly tothe Riverside campus oce oerry Cotton, Veteran AairsSpecialist at ACC.

Te new GI Bill, its asweeter dealand the vets arecoming home, so more vets areusing this resource. Plus with theeconomy, even the ones that maynot have thought about usingtheir benets, but now are out owork, realize that, hey Ive gotthis GI bill that I can all backon, said Cotton o the reasonsor the high number o veteransapplying or the new GI Bill.

Cotton is now advising theveterans that qualiy to signup or the emergency $3,000checks.

In a press release, VASecretary and Retired ArmyGen. Eric K. Shinseki explainedthat distributing the emergencychecks was an extraordinary

action, but its necessarybecause we recognize thehardships some o our Veteransace.

Te Downtown AustinAlliance (DAA), along withseveral residential groupsand downtown churches areproposing an extension o theexisting ban on night timepanhandling. Austins currentordinance that regulatespanhandling, the Austin CitySolicitation Ordinance 9-4-13originally adopted in 1992, allowsnon-aggressive panhandling,but includes restrictions on thetime, place and manner in whichsolicitation may legally occur. InDecember 2005, the Austin CityCouncil amended the SolicitationOrdinance to make panhandlingillegal between the hours o 7p.m. to 7 a.m. in the downtownbusiness district, basicallybanning the activity at night. Tearea where the DAA is asking ora ull ban on panhandling wouldcover rom the IH-35 rontageroad to San Antonio Street, and11th to Cesar Chavez.

Te aect panhandling couldhave on downtown businessesis another reason the DAA isproposing the ban.

We looked at things likedoes 6th Street live up to itsinternational brand. What couldbe done to help improve the

saety o the down town area, tomake it more attractive to visitorsand conventioneers? One o theways to improve this is to reducepanhandling, said Lacy Laborde,Marketing and CommunicationsDirector or the DAA.

Te human services groupsall say the same thing, that ipeople who are homeless wantood or shelter, it is available.Oen times panhandling is notbecause o desire or ood, butbecause o addiction problemswith alcohol and drugs. One othe things we will be working onis educating the public on whatlocal social service and charitygroups to donate money to or

volunteer with to help people thatare actually seeking help.

Front Steps, which managesthe Austin Resource Centeror the Homeless (ARCH), issupportive o the ban becausepanhandling doesnt actuallyserve the best interest o thoseasking or money on the street.

However, general publicreaction is mixed. Many eel thati panhandling is banned it maylead to even worse actions.

I panhandling is banned itcould easily lead to other things,

like the, and robbery, said GarySmeltzer, English Proessor atACCs Northridge Campus. Ithey arent hurting anyone, then

the city should leave them alone,and it should be an individualschoice to give to them, not thecity saying they cant even ask.

Te exas ACLU has not saidi they would ght such a ban inthe courts, however, they havestated opposition to such anordinance.

Someone asking or money,or assistance, regardless o howthey are dressed, or where theydo it is protected as ree speech.I they are aggressive aboutit, that can be another matter,but otherwise, i someone isasking or change to go and getsomething, say a cup o coee,they have a right to do that, nomatter where they are, saidDotty Grith, public EducationDirector or ACLU o exas.

Many other cities haveplaced bans like the currentproposal into eect. Te Austincity council has seemed to bereceptive to the idea o extendingthe current ban.

Tey came as a conversation,not with a hard copy proposal.We meet with groups all day,every day, to talk about ideasor the uture, but until we have

something like that in writingwith cost and how it will make animpact on the city, it is very hadto orm an opinion, stated Matt

Curtis, communications directoror Mayor Lengwell. Tepanhandling issue downtownis something that causesconcern because o aggressive

panhandling.Te DAA says that they andother groups will be in continuedpursuit o this initiative.

ACC students at RiversideCampus advised college leaderson Oct. 13 as part o theACC Student Forum hostedby the Student GovernmentAssociation.

Te college representatives

who attended were rusteemember Barbara Mink, Deano Student Services VirginiaFraire, and Campus ManagerFrank aylor.

It was a good opportunityor students to speak out, PeterRamirez, an ACC Student, said.

Te topics discussedincluded student desk size,computer availability oncampus, Capitol Metro bus

routes and parking.Tere were some questions

that were answered at theorum. aylor explained thatthe school is currently in theprocess o purchasing newdesks. Te type o desk hasalready been chosen, andthe inormation is currentlybeing sent to the Facilities and

Operations Department orprocessing.Ideally I would love to have

it by the star t o spring, aylorsaid. Hopeully within thisacademic year or sure.

On the topic o computeravailability on campus, Minksuggested that there should besome ground rules that wouldprioritize which students coulduse the computers.

I people are checkingtheir e-mail, they can have 15minutes, Mink said.

Other questions were notas easy to answer and willrequire urther attention. Minkexplained that she and theother campus leaders couldntdecide on anything at themeeting.

Im one o the boardmembers, so I cant say theboard will do this or that,Mink said. Tats why wereall taking notes: to get it to itsspecic place.

Not all topics discussedwere serious ones. One studentcomplained about the toiletpaper being positioned too lowin the bathroom stall. Minktried to get things back on

Ordinance would ban panhandling atall times in a greater area o town

track.I have to make a report o

this, Mink said. Im not goingto sit in ront o the board andreport about toile t paper.

Students who were unable toattend the event can still voicetheir opinions beore the board.Mink explained that once amonth the Board o rustees

opens the oor to anyone whowould like to speak. Tesemeetings are held at 6 p.m. atthe Highland Business centeron the rst Monday o eachmonth.

Overall aylor elt theorum was a success.

It denitely helps usas a college to know whichdirection we should go toresolve the issues.

David Saenz Sta Photographer

Austin's Homeless Auk,a homeless Vietnam veteransits on the corner o Guadal-upe and 29th street. Auk, likemany other panhandlers, willbe aected by DowntownAustin Alliances proposedpanhandling ordinance.

Jason HaydonStaff Writer

Michael NeedhamStaff Writer

VETERAN AFFAIRS TerryCotton, veteran aairs spe-cialist, advises students at heroce. Cotton has been help-ing vets attending ACC dealwith the delay in GI benefts.

PANHANDLING ORDINANCE A young man that preers not to reveal his name stands at the corner o Parmer and Metrichoping someone can spare some change. When it is 90 degrees outside and with an empty stomach anything helps.

TRUSTEE MEETING Director o Student Lie Cheryl Richard,Campus Manager Frank Taylor, Dean o Student Services Dr. Vir-ginia Fraire, and student Malinda Echert listen Tuesday September13th at the Trustees Meeting at the ACC Riverside campus

Teodora Erbes Sta Photographer

Hanlly Sam Photo/Web Editor

Jose Padilla Sta Photographer

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When I was a kid, I lovedHalloween. By the time Idgotten down to the dregs omy candy haul, which tookalmost a month thanks to myparents obnoxious insistenceon moderation, my brain wasteeming with ideas or nextyears costumes. Te seriousstages o costume design started

as early as June when my momand I would check out patternsand abric at the cra store.

Even rom a young age, Iremember having nothing butdisdain or the lack o creativityand shoddy crasmanshipinherent in store boughtcostumes. Halloween wasparadise or a eedback junkielike me. It was a chance to showthe neighbors how clever I was,not to mention my mothersmore than adequate seamstressabilities. Parading rom doorto door delivered more thanmere candy. It was about thewonderul, condescending tonethat accompanied the inevitable,

Well, i it isnt a little _____.No matter how cold, itchy,awkward, or uncomortable acostume might be, that shred orecognition made it worthwhile.God orbid any idiotic adultshould be oolish enough toutter, What are you supposedto be?

Unortunately, Halloweenjust isnt as un as it used to be.Unlimited year-round accessto candy takes all the unout o un-sized Snickers,and Ive nally given up ontrick-or-treating. I was able topush it urther than is sociallyacceptable, well up into my highschool years, by pretending thatit was ironic, but once youre 23

its just not okay to go door todoor in a costume anymore. Itdoesnt matter what holiday it is.

Sure, there is the Halloweenor adults 6th Street pub crawl,but ghting a crowd or cheapbeer lacks the mystery andinnocence o true trick-or-treating. Instead o crossing myngers and hoping or a kingsize candy bar, I cross my legs inthe epic bathroom line and hopethe guy dressed like Will Ferreldoesnt pick a ght to impressthe Playboy bunny on his arm.

Te downtown Austin crowdhas never been particularlymodest, but somehow the Jagerdamaged set has managed to

translate wear a costume intoshow more cleavage. Female

outts run the alphabet, startingwith Slutty Alien and endingwith Busty Zebra.

Guys arent much better.Lucy In Disguise supplieshigher quality are than theplastic Power Rangers masksthat irked me as child, butHalloween costumes should beabout creativity, not putting acleaning deposit on your creditcard. Tose that really put in theeort to construct somethingelaborate or wear something

uncomortable end up as theloser robot who cant sit downat a party where the other dudes

just went with a ake mustache.New Years, Christmas,

Tanksgiving, even ColumbusDay, all warrant a day o romwork, but All Hallows Eve getsbupkis i its unlucky enough toland on a week night. For mosto my adult lie, Halloweenhas been a hal-assed event,curtailed by inconvenient earlymorning work schedules. Tetimes when Ive managed tomake it out o the house, therestoo much competition rom rivalparties, and the night devolvesinto an endless quest or the

truly happening scene.Alternately overcrowded andsparsely attended, Halloweenparties present too manyoptions, making it hard todecide between that rumoredrager and your desperateco-workers little get together.Tankully this years Halloweenalls on a Saturday, making thatnight the de acto choice orrevelry.

A Halloween unluckyenough to land on a uesdaycan mean partying across theweekend until nally, the nightitsel arrives. Even an extremelywell made costume is startingto show wear and tear by thatpoint.

Rather than going out onthe town to drink with thezombie Michael Jacksons andoverweight Brunos, Id preer tospend this Halloween at homethis year. I I didnt live in WestCampus, where pumpkins getsmashed and decorations gettrashed, I could happily sit onmy porch with a mug o hotcider, a slice o pie, and bigbowl o candy bars. When theyoungsters approached, I wouldsound as sincere as humanlypossible whilst saying, Well,arent you a darling little HannahMontana.

Te kids who were smartenough to compliment mycostume would be rewardedwith a king size candy bar.

Austin City Limits (ACL

or riends) music estivalhappened on Oct. 2-4 at ZilkerPark. But who doesnt knowthat? With the number obillboards all over downtownAustin and on the pedicabs(those little carriages riddenby actual people that look toomuch like slave work, despitethe green initiative), only themost distracted Austinites andtemporary residents were notaware o the concert until therst week o October.

Te ones that rea lly didnt(seriously, under what rockdo they live?), or sure oundout on Oct. 2. Aer all, it is

very hard to ignore the absurdamount o busses with AustinCity Limits written on theside. Te initiative o oeringa whole day ree shuttle toall that who were going tothe estival was a smart one.It helped people avoid trac

jams, parking problems andthe possible accident caused byalcohol intoxicated drivers.

On that rst day, the skywasnt blue, but it was hotnevertheless, and very humid.

With the crazy autumnweather, a day without pouringrain was the best the AustinCity Limits goers could hopeor. But, that was just the rstday.

Te crowd was eclecticwith mothers with their babycarriages, children o all shapesand sizes, senior citizens (someo them looking like they couldhave been in Woodstock) but,o course, the majority o the

crowd was composed o collegestudents.Everybody was dressed as i

they were going to the beach.Shorts, ip-ops, baseball capsand sunglasses in all shapesand colors were eatured onthe green, velvety catwalk.-shirts with unny sayings orsome bands tour schedule onthe back were pervaded theestival.

Add all the people sitting inolding chairs or blankets, andthe only thing missing to makethat day a perect going tothe beach day would be sandand salt water. Other beachparaphernalia, like sun blocksmell and tiny bikini tops werethere. But, o course, the mainattraction wasnt palm shade orsand castles, but the bands.

Te rst day was so packedwith internationally recognizebands and artists that it wasdicult or anybody to decidebetween, or example, TeCrocked Vultures and AndrewBird (the person who made theschedule sure had a sense ohumor, provoking a cockght

or audience between the twoeathered bands) or YeahYeah Yeahs and Kings o Leon.

It was dicult to get a goodspot i one o the excellentbands nished a show justwhen another amazing bandstarted to play at another stage(especially or the ans who areonly 5 oot 3).

Te most enthusiasticans just had to come earlierand camp (almost literally)in ront o the stage in orderto guarantee a good view othe artists. Disregarding thepatience and commitment

required to stand (or sit) underthe greenhouse eect sun ormore than an hour, once theconcerts did start, the audiencewas awully still, behaving liketone-dea zombies. Tere wasno jumping around, no singingat the top o the lungs, no goingcrazy. Te connections betweenartists and appreciators just gotlost somewhere between thestage and the green grass.

Te ew ones that didseem to be truly enjoying theperormances looked likelunatics: shaking it, playing airguitar and air drums, singingwith the lyrics and mimickingthe instruments sounds asi their lives depended on it.But they were so ew and arapart, a singer or two may havegotten really disappointed.No wonder a lot o Americanartist all in love with oreign,overenthusiastic ans.

Contributing to the overallstillness o the crowd were thereshly sel-designated spacedeputies: mostly huge youngadults that both blocked the

view and the way o those ew

enthusiastic ans who arent asvertically blessed as them andjust wanted to take a glimpseo the gig while simultaneouslycracking bad jokes andoended people who wanted togo by. Who gave them a badgeanyway?

Tat green, hot and quietday was just the rst one. Tepouring rain that started toall over Austin on Oct. 3,beore ACLs gates where evenopened, and haunted the crowduntil Sunday didnt, however,managed to ruin the mood othose who went or the music

and or the un. In act, therain made those who wereumbrella covered, dressedin impermeable ponchos (orplastic garbage bags, in the caseo the people who missed theweather report) and holdingtheir muddy shoes in theirhands wake up rom the dead.

Te second day had bigmusic names, but none o themhuge like Kings o Leon on therst day or Pearl Jam on thelast, nevertheless the crowd hadun under the nasty weather.Te muddy oor prevented thelazy rom lying down on theirblankets or sunbathing on theiroldable chairs. Tere was nosun. Not having anything betterto do, they walked closer to thestages and watched the bands.

On Oct. 4, the rain stoppedalling. One might haveexpected the grass to be dry,but the emerald green, velvetygrass rom the rst day hadcompletely disappeared. ZilkerPark looked like it had beenattacked by an angry bualoherd overnight, and it didntsmelled much better than

Te United States Senate is struggling

to pass a bill to extend unemploymentinsurance. On Oct. 13, Senate MajorityLeader Harry Reid asked or clearanceto pass this bill, but it was shot downby GOP senators who have issues withhow the extension would be undedand with the act that the bill did notequally include all states. It is importantthat these issues be resolved and thispasses quickly to help the Americanswho are running out o unemploymentinsurance.

Sen. Jim Webb (D) VA, whoco-sponsored the proposal, said in apress release rom his oce that almost2 million Americans will run out ounemployment insurance by the end othe year.

Te unsuccessul bill would haveextended unemployment insurance or

the states that have an unemploymentrate above 8.5 percent. A possibleamendment to the bill would be to

extend those benets to all states.Tis amendment would help thebill pass more easily the next time itcomes to a vote, and it would helpmore jobless Americans weathertough economic times. exas, whichhas reached an unemployment ratehigher than it has been or the last 20years, has still not lost enough jobs toqualiy or the extension without thisamendment. However, when the over900,000 jobless people in exas runout o unemployment insurance, it isnot going to be any less hard on themthan it would be or the 8.6 percento unemployed people in Maine orPennsylvania.

Tis is undoubtedly a complicatedissue, but it is one that collegestudents should care more about.

As young people about to enter theworkorce, issues surrounding notonly unemployment insurance, but all

aspects o the job market should be apriority or college students as voters.College age students are

experiencing a record joblessnessrate that some experts believe has thepotential to cripple an entire generationproessionally. According to a BusinessWeekly analysis, college graduatesunder 27 years old are having almosttwice as hard o a time nding jobsthan their 28-50 year old counterparts.Studies have shown that this kind oslow start to a proessional career candecrease the amount o income one canexpect to make in their lie.

Tis bill should be passed quickly,and college students should care aboutthis bill passing quickly and about the

job market in general, because it aectsthem more than anybody else.

Job market a biggerissue or studentsthan ever beore

Every state needs more unding or unemployment

bualo ertilizer either.Te rain boots were the new

trend, but most o the musicappreciators had their shoes onone o their hands and mud upto their thighs. Some lookeddisgusted, others just tried toenjoy the music despite theertilizer, dirt and straw goothey were stepping on and athird group just orgot aboutbasic hygiene and dived, headrst, on it.

Te innocent bystandermight have thought did I buy

tickets or a trash horror movieinstead o the concert or amusic concert I wanted to goto? because o the astonishingquantity o mythic monstersamong them; rst the zombies,then the muddy people. At theend, isnt it all entertainment?Be it a gig or a horror show,what really matter is the unpeople had, and people surehad un at the ACL.

ACL muddy, fun

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Sake

Halloween Costumes

Devon TincknellStaff Writer

Diana LeiteStaff Writer

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All calorie counts are approximate

Having just one o most common drink isnt going to undo anyones day, however there are dayswhen you really, really, want more than just one. Instead o going on a liquid diet in order tocompensate or a ew drinks, take a look at this chart. Just knowing what exactly youre drinkingcould help you shave o enough calories to ft in a ew extra guilt ree cocktails.

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These have a slightly higher calorie countshot per shot than other spirits, but they alsotaste better on the rocks with maybe just asplash o water, whereas vodka, rum, gin andthe like are more traditionally mixed withother things and thereor higher in calories. Iyou drink whisky sours or bourbon and coke,all youre doing is adding more calories to adrink that is perectly good on its own.

Ive attended my air share o college parties over the years.I recall searching the sweaty crowds or a ace I recognize in small cramped apartments,

weaving my way over to the beer taps and watching a ew rounds o beer pong.Attending a real rager is exciting, but a night out on Sixth Street with my closest riends is

even better. Our goal or the night is never to get drunk, just to escape everyday stresses andhave un.

While I am al l or partying hard occasionally, Ive come to understand the dangersassociated with it. However, a new phenomenon concerning college students, binge drinkingand extreme dieting, has emerged throughout colleges nationwide and piqued my interest.

Tis new trend is called drunkorexia. o be clear, this is not an ocial medical term, butthe phenomenon is becoming more prevalent among college-aged women.

Tis trend involves individuals who want to lose weight or stay skinny, but still want topartake in drinking and partying. Drunkorexia links binge drinking to other eating disorderssuch as bulimia nervosa.

As a college-aged woman mysel, I am intrigued and stunned that some o my ellowschoolmates could be subjecting themselves to this type o behavior, so I decided to learnmore about it.

Basically, partygoers believe that i they rerain rom eating then they can drink withoutworrying about calories and get drunk aster on an empty stomach and stay skinny.

Tis leads me to believe that drunkorexia is less about wanting to get smashed and moreabout underlying body image or psychologicalissues.

Students may be engaging in this behavior ora number o reasons including relieving stress, butthere are deeper issues that should be addressed orsome students.

At Austin Recovery, a non-prot drug andalcohol rehabilitation center, Chie OperatingOcer Jimmy Ochs explained that duringtreatment sessions it was not unusual to haveyoung women admit to limiting the amount ocalories o ood based on the drinks they wereconsuming.

Ochs, a licensed chemical dependencycounselor, has treated a great number o youngwomen or alcohol-related dependencies, but was not amiliar with the term drunkorexia.

25-30 percent o emale patients are involved in eating disorders like anorexia andbulimia, Ochs said.

Ochs explained that most patients will not designate a ood problem or are willing to admitto one. He believes this is because patients eel more shame over ood issues than chemicaldependency issues.

Being unamiliar with the details eating disorders, I contacted the Eating Disorder Centero Denver (EDC-D) to understand how drunkorexia and eating disorders are linked.

Over this past summer, the center treated a group o young women or bulimia nervosaand elt the need to inorm the public through a press release dated Oct. 1, 2009 aboutdrunkorexia aer learning that 75% o college-aged women enrolled at EDC-D met thecriteria or alcohol abuse.

Each o them had discovered that i they went without ood during the day, they couldthen get drunker aster on less alcohol, Clinical Director amara Pryor, Ph.D. said.

Although this in itsel is not new, the manner in which they described using the alcohol

is exactly the same way in whichthey binge on ood aer going longperiods o time restricting their oodintake, Pryor explained.

Upon researching the topic, I rstbelieved that the root o the problem wasthat young women are constantly exposedto societys unrealistic views about health andtness.

However, Pryor explained that there area number o reasons or young women to trypracticing drunkorexia.

Most notably, more oen our patients experiencea lack o sel-awareness, low sel-condence, anxiety,depression and diculty with regulating and copingwith dicult emotions, Pryor said reerring to individualsdiagnosed with a substance abuse and eating disorder.

Since drunkorexia hasnt been ocially classied as adisorder, no ormal statistics are available about the topic.

In the elds o substance abuse and eating disorders, theco-existing presentation o an eating disorderand some orm o substance dependence isquite amiliar, and the individual is given twoseparate diagnoses and treated or both conditions,Pryor said.

Pryor doubts that drunkorexia will be given its owndiagnostic category.

Side eects o this phenomenon include academicproblems, relationship issues, and signicant psychologicaleects, Pryor said. Also, when under the inuence o thistype o behavior you are more susceptible to placing yourselin sexually compromising situations, Pryor added.

Whatever the reason or ollowing this trend, the biggestconcern is the overall health o women who show signs odrunkorexia I believe.

When a person takes the majority o their calories in the orm o alcohol, they end upnutritionally deprived. Tis negatively aects mood states, the ability to ocus, rememberand recall, and impacts sleep states, Pryor said.

Individuals who engage in drunkorexia needs to receive proper treatment and will need toaddress both the binge drinking and ood issues separately.

Its bafing to me that someone would believe that this was a great way to lose weight. Ina act sheet provided by EDC-D, a patient explained that its another way to just numb outand get rid o this awul stu in my head, when asked why she binge drinks in addition to hereating disorder.

As a student mysel, I completely sympathize with the patient and others who eel thesame way. Sometimes I also eel the need to escape everyday stresses and enjoy a night odebauchery. However, consistently hurting yoursel by engaging in this type o behavior issimply damaging yoursel physically and emotionally and will only make whatever issue youmay have about yoursel only worse.

WineAbout 130 calories

A glass o vino, red or white, comesin around 130 calories or a ve ouncepour. While red wine as been praisedor its antioxidants and even hearthealth benets, its still an alcoholicbeverage and has residual sugar in itrom the grapes. It is still a good choice iyoure the kind o person that will sit and

sip a ew glasses all evening.

ShotsAbout 90 calories

Most hard liquors will come in right round60 calories an ounce, but most shots are 1.5ounces. Thats around ninety calories a shot. Iyou start drinking shots with mixers in themlike cordials, or juice, the calorie count willskyrocket. Another problem with shots is thatthey dont last very long, so you move on toanother drink aster.

Margarita250-700 calories

The huge diference in calorie countis because a traditional margarita mightonly be 250 calories, but the rozen ruityconcoctions in sh bowl sized glasses canrack up over 700 calories. Keep the size oyour glass in mind, and drink margaritasmade with resh ingredients by hand, notout o a machine that looks like it coulddispense sot serve ice cream.

Rum and CokeAbout 180 calories

Switching to diet can shave of a lot othe calories, but its the two ounces o rumat about 130 calories that really makes thatnumber jump. Order them tall with dietsoda or a drink that will last a little longeror ewer calories. Otherwise toss a lime inthere, call it a Cuba Libre, and only drinkthem on occasion.

Vodka Red BullAbout 115 calories

One ounce o vodka mixed with hal acan o red bull is just over 100 calories. Aswith all drinks, a heavy handed bartendercan have a huge efect on how muchactually goes in the drink. Using sugar reered bull (i you can stand the taste) willknock quite a ew calories of this drink. Hala can o the diet red bull is only 5 calories.

Jager bombsAbout 200 calories

Jagermeister is about 100 calories a shot,Red Bull is about 100 calories a can, tossingthem together in a pint glass and chuggingthe mixture with your riends is not only goingto leave you with a wicked headache, itll addan explosive 200 calories per Jager bomb.

Gin and tonicAbout 64 calories

Gin on its own is just about thesame as vodka or silver rum at onlyabout 64 calories an ounce. However,Tonic water is like club sodas evilcalorie laden twin. It might not tastelike it, but those cute little bottleso tonic water they keep behind thebar are just as bad or you, ounce orounce, as coke.

BeerAbout 64 -350 calories

Beer is tricky. Most light beers will beabout 100 calories, but when you get intothe wide range o beers available, it easy toend up with a beer that is well over 200 oreven 300 hundred calories a bottle. Avoidholiday and seasonal brews, and anythingwith the word malt written clearly on thelabel.

Scotch/bourbon on the rocksAbout 70 calories

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Gol Fiesta to raise moneyor Latino scholarships

Latino reception amiliarizes

students with resources at ACC

Te ACC Chapter o the exas Association o Chicanos inHigher Education (ACHE) will be raising money or Latinoscholarships at the rst Gol Fiesta eam Scramble. Te goltournament will be held Oct. 27 at Riverside Gol Course. Tetournament will begin with a shotgun start at 8 a.m. and there willbe an award ceremony at 1:30 p.m..

Te deadline to sign up is Oct. 20, and there is a $75 ee perperson or $300 per oursome.

Te money rom the tournament will go toward Hispanicstudent scholarships here at ACC, said Shari Rodriquez, Presidento the ACC chapter o ACHE.

Te Oce o Student Support and Success Systems will hostthe second Latino Student Success Reception on Oct. 22 at CypressCampus rom 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.. Te rst was held on Oct. 14 atEastview Campus.

Sylvia Orozco, the excutive and ounding director o the Mexic-Arte Museum, was the keynote speaker at the Oct. 14 reception.Marta Cortera, writer and political activist, will be the eaturedspeaker on Oct. 22.

Te receptions are meant to provide students and their amilies,as well as aculty and sta, with inormation about resourcesavailable to them at ACC.

News Bries

Accent covers Obamas vistto the Presidential Forum onService at Texas A&M

Accent reporters were in College Station on Oct. 16 to coverPresident Barack Obamas speech on community service.

Obama was invited to the Presidential Forum on Service byormer President George H. W. Bush. Te event was hosted by Bushand the Points o Light Institute at Rudder Auditorium at exasA&M University. Te contributions o 4,500 Daily Point o Lightaward winners was honored as well as Bushs legacy o service andcivic engagement.

Te Accent collaborated with Te Battalion, the exas A&MUniversity student newspaper, to cover the event.

o see video, photos and articles about the event, go to theaccent.org

Students learn to teach

Students rom around thestate that are going into teachinggathered at ACC or theconerence, Reading the Future:Preparing exas Educatorsoday or the Students oomorrow, on Oct. 10. Teconerence, sponsored by ACCsCenter or Public Policy andPolitical Studies (CPPPS) andthe Arts and Humanity Divisionwas at the Highland BusinessCenter

From 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.students rom St. EdwardsUniversity, University o exas,

Huston illotson Universityand ACC listened to presentersspeak about the uture oeducation and what skillsthey will need to be eectiveteachers.

Director o the CPPPS,Peck Young and the Dean oArts and Humanities Division,Lyman Grant put this eventon with a ocus o teachingSpanish speaking students. Teimportance o literacy was acenter point o the presentationsgiven.

exas is going to be amajority-minority state. Wealready have in Del Valle schooldistrict, Manor school district

and AISD, that the majority ostudents are Hispanic, Youngsaid.

Te rst speaker was ormerMayor Gustavo L. Gus Garcia.He has served on a number ocommunity and proessionalorganizations such as the exasSociety o CPAs, and the GreaterAustin Hispanic Chambero Commerce (who awardedhim the Lietime AchievementAward). In 1972 he was elected

President o the Board o AustinCommunity College, and in2001-2003 served as Mayor oAustin.

Garcia said there was nohigher calling than education.

Whether youre goingto teach elementary or highschool, you can shape someoneelses uture, and you need tounderstand that, Garcia said.

He really hit home or me;even the story about his lie hitme because when I rst startedcollege I didnt do so well, butnow Ive ound my way and amgetting mysel back on track,John Sanchez, education majorsaid.

Other speakers at the eventincluded Council Member MikeMartinez, Dr. Donetta Goodalland Dr. Ramon H. Dovalina.Dovalina, who was namedPresident o Laredo CommunityCollege in 1995 and alsolaunched an environmentalscience center emphasized thatstudents who couldnt speakEnglish well would be hamperedin emergency situations orwhen having to communicatemedical needs. English shouldbe taught through the 12thgrade, as o now it is not,Dovalina said.

Part o his reasoning orEnglish being taught all through

grade school is that manySpanish speaking studentshave no reinorcement to learnEnglish at home.

Dovalina said that aertaking a class, they (englishas second language students)go home and are surroundedby Spanish speaking amilymembers and Spanish speakingtelevision and radio programs.Tis doesnt encourage themto retain any uency in English

they mightve gained whiletaking the class.

What I loved was thereceptiveness o the audienceto learning about new ideas oreducating bilingual students,said Carla Jackson, associatedirector o CPPPS.

Aer the speakers nished,there was an open discussionled by a panel o students withup to 20 years o teachingexperience. Tey answeredquestions among themselves as

well as rom the audience.By having them expresssome o their ideas and issues,we were all able to learn moreabout whats needed when itcomes to bilingual education,Jackson said.

Leading the panel was Dr.Giao Phan, Associate Proessorand Chair o the EducationInstruction Department atACC. She maintained theinteractive discussion between

students and teachers on thepanel, centered around thegrowing number o Hispanicstudents.

Te learning o Englishwas denitely vital to Garciascareer as a CPA and eventuallyas mayor. Garcia spoke abouthaving a gi with numbers, butnot knowing enough English touse that talent.

I couldnt read tax codes.I couldnt do anything, Garciasaid.

Te event wasnt aboutsimply teaching English, butbeing able to connect withnon-English speaking studentsand understanding their culture,according to Young. He wasnot alone in the sentiment owanting to use the teachers roleto empower uture students.

Garcia told the gatherededucation majors, youre thelink between what they can beand what they want to be.

Trevor GoodchildStaff Writer

TEACHING CONFERENCE (From let to right) Austin City

Council Member Mike Martinez, ormer Mayor Gus Garcia, andDr. Ramn H. Dovalina gather together on Oct. 10 at ACCsHighland Business Center. They spoke to a crowd o prospec-tive teachers about the importance o literacy in Texas schools.

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Rio Grande book store moves to itsnew home in parking garage space

ACC celebrates cultural diversity

Te ACC Book store wasclosed rom Oct. 12 to Oct.19as it moved to its new locationon the ground oor o the RioGrande Parking Garage.

Students and aculty whoonce had to cross a busy roadto reach the old book store nowcan nd needed supplies only aew eet away rom their cars.

Jeanette Lien, the book storegeneral manager, states herplans or the uture o the store.We just want to become moreand more a part o the campuslie. We hope that students will

eel part o the book store.In addition to the retaillocation moving, the bookstores oce and warehouse arealso relocating to 2305 DonleyDrive, Austin, X 78758. Teyplan to open around Oct. 26.

Te garage was builtwith the book store in mind,explains Marilyn Lee-aylor, theRio Grande Campus Manager.I think it would be (a benet)because students can get out

their cars, buy their books, andcome to class. Its so convenientand easy.

Te approximately 2400sq store was planned alongwith the parking garage to givestudents better access to thecampus.

In the new store, studentswill nd all o the distancelearning textbooks, the majorityo continuing education books,

and all the required textbooksor classes at the Rio Grandecampus.

Also, Lien mentions thatthe quantity o snacks and mealsubstitutes will go up comparedto the previous selection.

Bryan Babbs, the storesupervisor, also expressed hishopes or the new location.With the move, I think wellbetter serve the students.

Tis semesters Unity Jamactivities will be held at eachACC campus. Te StudentLie event is meant to exposestudents to a wide range ocultures and traditions.

Each o the 7 ACCcampuses was assigned acountry by John Jacobs, theStudent Lie coordinator at theEastview campus in charge odiversity programming. TeUnity Jam celebrations beganon Oct. 14 and continue toOct. 21. On Oct. 14 Eastviewpresented India, Oct. 15brought Cuba to Rio Grande,then on Oct. 19 South Austinwill present Myanmar.Riverside will celebrate NorthKorea on Oct. 20, and Pinnaclewill nish out Unity Jam withDenmark on Oct. 21.

At the Oct. 13 Northridgecampus presentation oTe Republic o the Congo,traditional ood was servedincluding ried plantains,candied peanuts and stew. Allthe ood was prepared romtraditional recipes by memberso the Arican StudentAssociation (ASA).

Te student lounge was

transormed with plants andother decorations to makeit appear like a jungle. Eventhe lights in the ceiling werecovered with stars, to simulatea night time sky, and to helpraise the temperature in theroom, and to try and simulatea warm tropical atmosphere.

Right aerWelcomepalooza, we startedplanning and prepping andbuying decorations to turn

the student lounge into ajungle. So, it took us probablyabout a couple o weeks toget the decorations and planout the ood, said onietteHaynes Robinson, Student Lie

coordinator or Northridgecampus. Te reason we choseRepublic o Congo is that it isknown or human tracking.A lot o people dont know that,so we have several posters upin the lounge to teach studentswhat is going on. Tey canget involved with communityoutreach and other things withthe ASA that help to inormabout the Arican continent asa whole.

Te ASA also perormed acoupe decale dance. Coupedecale is modern hip hopout o the Ivory Coast that isheavily ormed by percussiverhythms rom the Congo.

Perormer Owen Nyatangasaid that the ASA studentsthat perormed the dancespent two months learning thechoreography.

I could hear the musicand then saw part o thedance. It was totally sweet,said Northridge student AlexFoster. I just wish I had madeit in time to try some o theood.

Shiphrah MeditzStaff Position

Jason HaydonStaff Writer

NEW BOOK STORE Final arrangements are made or thecoming opening o the new ACC Rio Grande Bookstore.

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ABOVE Linda Hernandez, criminal justice major, gets a ree indian-style Henna tattoo.BELOW Arican Student Association members perorm a traditional Congolese dance.

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INDIAN DANCE Golda Sahayam, rom Austin Dance India,perorms at the Unity Jam celebration at Eastview Campus.

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Halloweens happenings

Frances new reign o terror

Tough evencasual moviegoershave noticed thatHollywood has runout o ideas, thisdrought o originalthought has beenespecially devastatingin the world o horror.

Te last decade hastriggered a severe caseo dj-vu or horrorand gore anatics asevery viable ranchise,and many orgottenduds, has been raisedrom the dead, brainless as the

drooling zombies they star.Legitimate classics likeHalloween and Fridaythe13th have been re-imaginedalongside remakes ounremarkable 80s slasherpictures like My BloodyValentine and SororityRow. Te last horror movieto actually create somethingunique was Saw, whoseelaborate torture laden premise(perhaps a symptom o culturalguilt over the War on error?)has since been beaten to deathwith ve sequels in as manyyears. Instead o orkingover $10.50 at the theater tosee Saw VI or the Nightof the Demons remake,horror acionados would bebetter suited heading to thelocal video store to check outthe deeply disturbing andrereshingly original Frenchlms lintrieur (Inside)and Martyrs.

While American audienceshave been suering througha glut o dead MV extrasand CGI monsters, Franceis experiencing a horrorrenaissance. Tis Halloween,those that dont mind subtitlesare strongly encouraged toavoid the theater and curl upon the couch instead withone o these modern macabremasterpieces . Be warned, you

might want to leave the lightson.Merging old school

Hitchcockian suspense withbrutally realistic violence, lintrieur delivers terror thatar and away surpasses theusual something went bump

jolts.Aer losing her husband in

a car accident several monthsearlier, the melancholy Sarah(Alysson Paradis) is struggling

to go on with her lie. A ullnine months pregnant, Sarahis scheduled to deliver onChristmas Day. Relaxing athome, she is interrupted whena mysterious woman shows upat the door and demands to belet in. Te intruder threatensSarah and reveals an intimateknowledge o her lie. Teinitial encounter is creepy, butthings get exponentially worseas Sarah is stalked and attackedby the unknown sadist.

lintrieurs premise isairly trite, but it is rst timewriter/director AlexandreBustillos and director JulienMaurys masterul executionthat wrings resh material roma tired concept.

Te pacing o the lm startsand stops appropriately, lullingthe viewer with momentso calm beore unleashing atorrent o savagery. Specialeects and gratuitous gorenormally obscure any notionso tension or atmosphere, but lintrieur manages toseamlessly alternate betweenboth. By the end, the audienceis unsure which is moreterriying, the bursts o graphic

violence or the moments oapprehension that precedethem.

Either way, lintrieursucceeds spectacularly where

so many recent movies haveailed. You will never look ata pair o scissors the same wayagain.

Coming at the genrerom a completely oppositeangle, Martyrs is alternatelyunorgettable and unwatchable.Giving Martyrs a thoroughdescription would be a crime,since much o the viewingpleasures are derived rom thecinematic u-turns it takes along

the way.Like the Saw and Hostellms, Martyrs concerns itselwith our current, voyeuristicinatuation with torture. All othese lms contain despicableacts perormed on innocent

victims, but Martyrs isunique in providing anexplanation or why thesepeople are tortured beyondweakly rationalizing thelmmakers desire to showgore.

From masked slashers toblood thirsty monsters, horrorlms are populated withcharacters that do evil justcause. Teir cruelty exists onlyto put the heroine in peril, andthere is no understanding ormotivation to be gleaned romtheir actions.

Martyrs circuitous routeto its nal act keeps viewersin the dark, but when theexposition is nally delivered,it is as shocking as it isphilosophically intriguing.

lintrieur takes thestandard horror ormula andtightens it into somethinggrander and more eloquentthan a high dead teenager bodycount. Martyrs, on the otherhand, takes ragments thatwe have seen beore; torture,ghosts, revenge, and re-createsthem with more thought than

they were ever given. Teresult is two spectacular lmsdecidedly dierent in theirapproach to horror.

Aside rom being French,the only similarity between lintrieur and Martyrs is thatboth will unnerve you ar longerthan anything else you see thisOctober.

Watch them now and haveun spending Halloween with thelights on and no scissors in sight.

Austin Ghost Tours

For those who love a littlelocal history with their ghoststories, Austin Ghost ours(AG)has just the ticket. Eachtour lasts an hour and a hal andtakes you on an invigorating

jaunt around downtown Austin.Te ours meet at the

Moonshine Patio Bar and Grill,

take you down 2nd Street, to theDriskill Hotel and back again,stopping along the way to impartdetails about Austins moregruesome past. Tis includesa ruptured dam that killedhundreds o people, a scalping,and a serial killer as prolic asJack the Ripper.

AG boasts several dierentroutes and runs year-round.Te tour guides are incrediblyknowledgeable and can spin aghost yarn with air. It has beensaid that many o these toursexperience paranormal activityso bring your camera!

For those who are lookingor an adrenaline-induced goreest, this may not be or you.

However, or anyone who lovesto learn a little more about theircity while hearing a creepy story,you will not be disappointed. Tevaried ours run through Oct.30 and are $20 a piece. Visithauntedtexas.com for moredetails.

Mansion o Terrror

I you tend to cover your eyes,

jump out o your seat when youwatch a horror lm or have towatch a happy lm aerwards soyou can sleep at night, then theMansion o error is not or you.

Located at I-35 exit 251(behind Walgreens) in RoundRock, it was named one o theop 8 Haunted Houses by Teravel Channel last year.

Trough the two separatethemed houses, Mansion oerror and Illusion Manor

visitors get to experience a reallie horror lm scenario asactual characters, such as BloodFrenzys serial killer, Jon EricSpringwood or the zombies in

Death Asylum.Blood Frenzy might includeyou leaving with blood splatterson your clothes, but do not ret,it washes out. However, rainponchos are or sale at the door iyou would preer your clothes tobe undamaged.

Each attraction showcases anobvious labor o love or owner,Norm Glenn, as new themesare introduced each year.withplanning and structuring startingas early as January. Te costumesworn by the actors are veryelaborate, and the makeup artistshave an acute sense or detail.With Mansion o error, rated#1 in the country by LionsgateFilms (Sawsextuplet, Crash and

Gamer), this is obviously nota job they take lightly. icketsare $15 for one house or $20for both houses and it runsthrough Oct. 31.

House o Torment

Consistently rated as oneo the best haunted housesin the country, by multiplepublications, House o orment

hosts two attractions;House o orment, atraditional hauntedhouse, and newor 2009, IllusionManor, a un housegone schizophrenic.Te haunted houseis located at 523Highland Mall Blvd,Austin, X 78752,across from Macysin the parking lot.House o ormentruns throughHalloween, rom 7p.m. until midnight.Te lines are long,

but you can purchasetickets in advance ontheir website: http://www.houseoorment.com or call 512-407-9449 or moreinormation.ickets are $14.99for one attraction,and $19.99 forboth. On Oct. 23they will be hosting a blood driveas well. Prizes and some ticketswill be given away to donors.Nov. 6, 7, 13 and 14 they will bepresenting Dark Stalkers, alimited capacity attraction: samehaunted house, no lights and oneglow stick per group. ickets are$20.00 and they recommend an

advance purchase. Dark Stalkersrequires a signed waiver due tothe nature o the event.

Other OptionsAlthough not yet open,

another haunted house omention is Scare for a Curelocated at 7400 ColdwaterCanyon Dr., Austin, exas. Itis a non-prot that will donate

You may even be pulled aside toact as a spook. Be warned, it is a60-90 minute hike through thewoods, so wear proper shoes.ickets sell fast, and are $35 perperson (ages 13-16 admittedonly with a legal parent orguardian). Call 512-327-7622or more inormation.

Sixth Street, Halloween

Night guarantees over 100,000partiers, live music, clubs, hotcostumes, and more. Hold on toyour possessions, Bring moneyor a cab, or designate a driver.Remember that the cross streetsclose early in the evening, so beprepared to walk.

all net proceeds, this year, to theBreast Cancer Resource Centero Central exas. In 2007, theyraised $5,000 dollars and in 2008they raised $10,000 dollars.

Scare or a Cure is unique inthat they oer a ully interactiveexperience: ull contact isallowed or their cast.

Tey will be operatingOct.

22-25 and 28-31. Tree tours areoered: Regular Level, Red-Levelor more earless individuals, andgreen-level or the aint-o-heart.Green and Regular admissionsare $20 dollars and Red is $25.

Wild Basins Hauntedrailsis located at 805 N Capitalof exas Hwy Austin, X78746-3301.Tis should be agreat nature walk that combinescalorie-burning with screams!

Devon TincknellStaff Writer

Adrienne AnnasJason HaydonShiphrah MeditzSarah VasquezStaff Writers

GHOST STORIES Austin Ghost Tours guide, Monica, im-parts a chilling tale or the adventurers o the tour.

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Sarah Vasquez Sta Photographer

TERROR MANSION One o the mon-sters rom the Blood Frenzy kills time.

Photos Courtesy of Canal Horizons and La Fabrique de Films

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Gimme Something Better: TeProfound, Progressive and OccasionallyPointless History of Bay Area Punk fromDeadKennedys to Green Day, is whatthe lengthy title states. Tis oral history

compiled by Jack Boulware and Silke udor ollows the veino Please Kill Me and We Got the Neutron Bomb, bothabulous oral histories o the meteoric ascent and just as meteoricdescent o punk music and the culture that surrounded it. Tebook will be available Oct. 19 rom Penguin.

I am the New Black is a biography rom the hilarious racyMorgan (30 Rock). According to Morgan, My lie growing upwas a twisted Bronx version o Te Color Purple. Tis probablywill not be all unny. Te biography will be available Oct.20 romRandom House.

Look at the Birdie: Unpublished Short Fiction is anotherposthumously published compilation rom one o the greatestAmerican writers ever: Kurt Vonnegut. His previous collection,Armageddon in Retrospect is abulous. Te stories will beavailable Oct. 20 rom Random House.

For more notable, new and live suggestions visit theaccent.org

Dead Prez will be perorming uesdayOct. 20 @ Emos located at 603 Red River,78701. Tere is also an entrance on theSixth Street side. Tese guys have beenchurning out politico, hype and intelligent

hip-hop or a while now. C-Ray Walz, Zeale, avanaandDJ KydSlyce will be opening up. Te doors open at 9 p.m. and tickets are$16 pre-sale at Waterloo Records and $20 at the door.

Salvage Vanguard Teater (SV) andDoctuh Mistuh Present: Evil Dead-TeMusical. Tis production has the seal

o approval rom Sam Raimi and BruceCampbell themselves. Michael McKelveythe stage and musical director or Sweeney

odd will be bringing his expertise to this rendition, a deniteplus. SV is located at 2803 Manor Road, 78722. Te last show ison OCt. 23, 11:15 p.m. and tickets are $15 and $10 at the door orstudents and seniors. Look or a well worth it $5 upgrade to theshow at the door.

Staged By the Bell, live episodes o Saved by the Bell will bepresented by the United States Art Authority. Tis production isactually taking real episodes o Saved by the Bell and perormingthem, campy and nostalgic. Catch the Te Zach apes at TeInstitution Teater at Te Spider House, 2906 Fruth St., onSunday Oct. 25 and Sunday Nov. 1. at 8 p.m. ickets are $10.

Antichrist is renowned and highly

stylistic Lars Von riers latest lm.Antichrist explores the dark nature o thehomo-sapiens through the medium o sexin a desolate cabin called Eden. Willem

Daoe (Daybreakers) and Charlotte Gainsbourg (21 Grams)star in this dark horror lm. Te lm opens Oct. 23 at limitedtheaters.

Ong Bak 2: Te Beginning is acrobatic and inventive martialartist ony Jaas (Ong Bak) most recent installment to thehopeully growing Ong Bak series. Te movie is a revenge story,but packed ull o awesome stunts and bad guys getting clobberedcreatively. Te action ick will open at select theaters on Oct. 23,and it is available now, exclusively, on Video on Demand.

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Gentlemen Broncos mixessci-f, salty gnats in new flm

Hi Ballin at the Alamo

What do a lesh pocket,a deecating snake, androcket equipped stags havein common? hey are allcontained in the hilariouslycampy, science ictioninused, teenage angst ilmGentlemen Broncos.

Gentlemen Broncos is themost recent comedic endeavorrom couple and creative duoJared and Jerusha Hess. heHesss co-wrote NapoleonDynamite and NachoLibre. Jared directe d bothNapoleon Dynamite andGentlemen Broncos, with thelatter taking on an even moreexaggerated, middle-Americaquirky eel that is indicative ohis Utah roots.

he movie is centered onan odd and reserved budding

sci-i writer, Benjamin Purvis(Michael Angarano, LordsofDogtown), who attends CletusFestival to hone his crat.he camps key-note and onlyspeaker is the renowned Dr.Ronald Chevalier (JemaineClement, Flight of theConchords). Chevalier isa highly celebrated antasyauthor who happens to beexperiencing writers block,which leads him to plagiarizePurvis story Yeast Lords: heBronco Years.

Chevaliers plagiarismcoincides with Purvis storyssuccess at home when a localhack director buys and thenbegins to ilm an out-o-

control adaptation o YeastLords careening Purvisonce simple, nightgownpeddling, geodesic domedwelling lie into a whirlwindo revelation and camp.

he ilm is presented ina uniquely triangular ormato Purvis vision o his storycontaining the Kansas-esque,hickish, bearded tough guyBronco (Sam Rockwell,Moon). Juxtaposed withChevaliers eeminate

version, which he aptlyrenamed he Chronicles oBrutus and Balzaak. Brutus(also played by Rockwell) inChevaliers version has also

raided one o Kansas singersclosets and talks with a lisp,all while doing battle withcyclopes. he real lie dramato complete the triumvirateis Purvis wrangling with theslaughtering o his story bythe hometown director Lonnie(Hector Jimenez).

he ilm is hilarious.esticles have never been soascinating. Rockwells dualperormance is unorgettableand producer Mike Whites(co-writer oSchool of Rock)perormance as Lonnies sleazyproducer, Dusty, is a tellingaddition.

Following its September24 Fantastic Fest premiere,

the Accent sat down withRockwell and White to talkabout Brutus/Balzaak, thedirector and salty gnats.

According to White, Mr.Hess originally wanted bothBrutus and Balzaak to beplayed by two separate actors,but when Rockwell agreed tocome on board that changed.

Rockwell: I think I kind otalked him into it. I think Ipitched the idea?

With Moon and nowGentlemen Broncos,Rockwell has showcased the

juxtaposition o a slightlyhomosexual and hilariousindividual versus a redneckishand caustic character withthe latter. An egotisticalmislead hero with a dying andskeptical proletariat with theormer.

he actor has an ainityor the dichotomy. I getcomedyand there seemsto always be a little comedyin the drama and drama inthe comedy. Rockwell statesthat his heroes were RobertDeNiro and Bill Murray,Robert Duvall and RichardPryor.Rockwell: It is very liberatingto just go over the topnotworry about being realisticor anything, in both worlds.Bronco was kind o maybe alittle bit o the character inhe Green Mile that I did...the looks were modeled romguys in the band Kansas, both

looks.I actually did this rightater Moon, and I was reallyexcited I thought I wasgoing to do Brutus withan English accent, so I wastapping people who were inLondon cause I was tryingto get a posh British accent. Iwas going to do like Brandoin Dry White Season; I wastrying that voice or a while.I actually thought this wasgoing to be really easy, andwhen we were in ront o thecamera, it was easy, it was

just eortless cause Jared waseasy to work with. But I didntrealize all the makeup and thegnatsthe conditions were

crazy, we were out in the SaltLakeyoure itching, and yougot this crazy suitI couldnttake a piss you k nowtherewas no ly on this thing. I hadno ideaschedule or threeweeks.

According to Whiteilming in the Salt Lakewas more than a vicarious

experience, it orced anexodus o sorts. I had neverreally dealt with bugs like thatbeore. It smelled like eggs,sulur in the air. So I went theirst day, I was like I got togo. I have a lot o stu goingon back in L.A., Jared? Ill seeyou guys. And I liter ally didntcome back until the last day.

Rockwell exclaimed, Wehad those like bee-hive masksso bugs cant get in your ace.It was insane. We had like

zipper suits on.Rockwell: I it wasnt orJared, it would have been anightmare, but Jared is such alovely guy.

According to the actor,shooting the movie was unlikeanything he had ever donebeore.

Bronco versus Balzaak isgenius camp. Both were wayover the top. White put it bestas he said It was cool. I mean,I love how theyre on thetwo poles o the masculinityspectrum. With a sheepishlaugh he looked down, his acecovered by an oversized redtruckers hat with the words

YEAS LORDS emblazonedacross it.Rockwells attraction to

sci-i camp could stem romhis character in GalaxyQuest or his love or thegenre. He has worked with,arguably, the most proliicsci-i director in Americanhistory in Ridley Scott(Blade Runner), but the ilmRockwell did with Scott wasabout present day hustlersinstead o deadly androids oraliens.

I almost did G.I. Janewith Ridley, and the n I didnt.I sort o dropped out o it, soI thought he was never goingto hire me again. But then he

did, and I was really excited.Matchstick Men was reallyun cause it was just a coupleo actors. here was no specialeects or broadswords orgladiators. So, I think Ridleywas in a good mood, youknow, he didnt really have todeal with a lot. It was just likean acting piece. So that was

a small movie or him, but itwas a big movie or me. A loto the set design on Moon wasan homage to Ridleys stu inBlade Runner [and Alien].

What is on the horizonor White and his apparentlycooperative yet eclectic mind?I am going to direct a pilotor HBO with Laura Dern(InlandEmpire), wereshooting I thinkat the endo the year. I wrote it. Its likea hal-hour show. Its kind

o about this woman thatLaura is playingshe has anervous breakdownshe hasto go away to get help. Shecomes back enlightened,she thinks shes ound theanswers to lieshe goes backto her work and her lie, andshes gonna change the world.Its called Enlightened, itspretty weird. HB Os into itso ar its been pre tty smooth.

While White has beencollaborating with the beststation on television, Rockwellis working on the next Marvelpotential blockbuster: IronMan 2. Its like Iron Man,and more, a little more

ightingmore characters.here is a new superherothat Scarlett (Johannsonas the Black Widow) does.Rourke (Whiplash) isagreat addition to it, andCheadle (War Machine)there is a lot going onit wasa complicated piece to puttogether. Im playing JustinHammer. Im the ast t alkingweapons dealer. Downey (IronMan) is gonna be amazing inthis one.

Gentlemen Broncos willhit limited theatres Oct. 30.

o reer to the AlamoDrahouse as just a movietheater would be a grossoversimplication. Tanksto alcoholic beverage service,cult movie screenings, andgrandiose interactive events,the Alamo Drahouse hasbecome an Austin institutionand an integral part o w hatkeeps this city weird. WhenAlamo ounder im Leagueannounced that he was

starting a new venture, acocktail lounge/diner o sorts,Alamo patrons knew it wouldbe anything but ordinary.

Te Highball is not onlya cocktail lounge/diner, butalso an arcade, bowling alley,karaoke hall, and ballroom.Occupying the space levacant by the Salvation Armynext to the Alamo SouthLamar, the Highball had aso opening during this yearsFantastic Fest, giving estivalgoers and intrepid memberso the public a sneak peak owhat the Highball has to oer.

Te vintage 1950s bowlinglanes were up and running,

inventive cocktails were beingpoured with prociency, andskee-ball anatics were takingadvantage o the ree skeeaction.

Te only mystery theHighball held back was theseven themed private karaokerooms. With clever names likeXanadu and Low Places, eacho the seven private rooms istailored to a musical themeranging rom disco to heavy

metal, country, and beyond.Sadly they were not on displayat the Highballs so opening,but that minor setback merelyrelocated the karaoke to thespacious Highball dance oor.

Te crowd who shows up tothe Drahouses $1 midnightscreenings and orders asmall popcorn will mostlikely consider the Highballout o their budget, but thetemptation o a grati coveredhip hop karaoke room willinevitably entice a ew nightso splurging and spending.Tankully, those that can notaord to dine on ried goatcheese risotto every night willstill be able to stop by andenjoy the un o the interactive

parties.im League operates on

a business model that looksmore toward providing unthan maximizing prots.

Te Alamo Drahousehas proven to be an endlesssource o creativity andmirth making, whether it issponsoring a oating pirateparty or providing a propersing-a-long eulogy to MichaelJackson. Cramming karaoke,bowling, dancing, dining, and,do not orget, drinking into asingle storeront might seemoverly ambitious, but those arejust the regular oerings. Oncethe Highball ocially opens,you can expect things to reallyget rolling.

David RodriguezAssistant Editor

Devon TincknellStaff Writer

GENTLEMEN BRONCOS (From let to right) Jared Hess, Michael Angarano, Sam Rockwell,Mike White, Jerusha Hess and Dr. Ronald Chevalier (Jemaine Clement) answer questions at thepremier at the Paramount Theater in downtown Austin on Sept. 24, 2009.

ALAMO'S HIGHBALL Alamos newest attraction will drawthe attention o those who can aord more than just a movie.

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